Draft or file copy of a letter from Voltaire to Antoine Henri de Bérault-Bercastel, dated 11 March 1767 [D14028]
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CMV34185
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FS 318 E 10, ‘Lettre de Voltaire à l’abbé Bérault à propos de son ouvrage “La conquête de la terre promise” [texte manuscrit]’
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Draft or file copy of a letter from Voltaire to Antoine Henri de Bérault-Bercastel, dated 11 March 1767 [D14028]
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Nonseulement, Monsieur, la personne que vous aviez chargée de me faire parvenir vôtre poëme de la conquète de la terre promise ne m’a point envoié vôtre ouvrage, mais il ne m’en a point parlé.
Incipit Modernised:
Nonseulement, Monsieur, la personne que vous aviez chargée de me faire parvenir vôtre poëme de la conquète de la terre promise ne m’a point envoié vôtre ouvrage, mais il ne m’en a point parlé.
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Draft or file copy of a letter from Voltaire to Antoine Henri de Bérault-Bercastel, dated 11 March 1767.
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2 ff.
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230 x 186 mm
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2
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A second, unknown hand has added four notes to the MS. The first reads ‘E’, the second reads ’48’, the third reads ‘a un Ecclesiastique [biffé]’, and the fourth ‘A M. L’abbé Beraud’.
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11 March 1767
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Jeroom Vercruysse, Inventaire raisonné des manuscrits Voltairiens de la Bibliothèque royale Albert Ier, vol.2 (Turnhout, 1983) p.11.
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